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Hamlet > Key Vocab > Flashcards

Key Vocab Flashcards

1
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Antagonist

A

Opposes the hero

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Antithesis

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Opposition, used of contrast can sharpen ideas

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3
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Asyndeton

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Lost separated by commas, semi colons rather than conjunctions

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4
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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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5
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Citizens

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Collective term for people of nations, states or society’s

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Caesura

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Break or pause in line of verse

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7
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Catharsis

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Powerful emotions like pity and fear are purged through watching a tragic play

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8
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Catholicism

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Roman Catholic Church, led by Pope

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9
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Couplet

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Pairs/repetition in lines

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10
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Enlightenment

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1400-1700:beginning of modernity

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11
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Elizabethan era

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Reign of queen elizabeth

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12
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End stopped lines

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Pause at the end of a line of verse

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13
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Enjambement

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Running on lines

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14
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Hamartia

A

Fatal flaw

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15
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Freudian

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With reference to the psychoanalytic theories of Freud

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16
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Hierarchy

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System where things/people are ranked according to status or authority

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17
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Humanist

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Man as focus, physical worldly life prioritised over spiritual or the supernatural

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18
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4 humors

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An excess or deficiency of any of the four bodily fluids results in an imbalance, causing physical disorder

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19
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Iambic pentameter

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10 syllable line of alternate stressed syllables

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20
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Imagery

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Language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas

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21
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In media res

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In the middle of things

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22
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Introspection

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Examination of ones thoughts and feelings

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23
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Jacobean

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Reign of james I

24
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Machiavellian

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Cunning, scheming or unscrupulous, especially in politics

25
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Malcontent

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Figure who is dissatisfied, rebellious, defined by difference from others

26
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Meta theatre

A

Plays that refer back to themselves, a play within a play

27
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Metre

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Pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables

28
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Misogyny

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Person who hates or doesn’t trust women

29
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Patriarchal

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A social system in which gives males primary power

30
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Polysynditon

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Repetition of conjunctions in a list

31
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Prose

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Direct form of language spoken or written

32
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Protagonist

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The first actor, originally/ equivalent to a hero/central character

33
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Protestant

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A member of western Christian churches, separate from the RC church

34
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Pun

A

Play on words

35
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Renaissance

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1400-1600 rebirth in interest in the culture of Ancient Greece and Rome

36
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Secular

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Not concerned with religious or spiritual matters

37
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Senecan tragedy

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Dramas influenced by Seneca, revenge, ghosts, disaster, blood

38
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Sensationalist

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Presentation of stories to provoke excitement at the expense of accuracy

39
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Soliloquy

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Where a character alone on stage expresses inner thoughts and feelings

40
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Stichomythia

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Dialogue of alternating single lines usually in drama

41
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Synecdoche

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Figure of speech where a part represents the whole

42
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Transgression

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Act that goes against a rule, law, conduct

43
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Transition

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Going through a period of change

44
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Bureaucratic speech

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Speak of kings/royalty

45
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Word choice

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‘register’. It refers to an author’s choice of language. Authors may use words commonly associated with a certain subject, experience or state of mind.

46
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Tone

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Creates the mood

47
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Symbolism

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Objects colours or sounds etc which work as symbols - can give insight to themes

48
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Simile

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Establishes a similarity between two things

49
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Rhythm

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Beats or metre within verse

50
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Personification

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Giving a non human object human atributes

51
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Pathos

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Language which evokes feelings of pity or sorrow

52
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Etaphor

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Imply a figurative resemblance between two things

53
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Irony

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When words imply the oppressive of what they mean

54
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Hyperbole

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Exaggerating for a purpose

55
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Dissonance

A

Discordant combinations of sounds

56
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Colloquial language

A

Informal language

Hamlet (11 decks)

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